By Maurice Casey
The beginning bankruptcy surveys the background of scholarship in regards to the troublesome use of the word 'son of guy' within the New testomony. It additionally explains why this challenge couldn't be solved till lately. Casey then offers the proper Aramaic proof. He bargains a cautious dialogue of using the Aramaic time period 'son of guy' within the gentle of over 30 examples of using this time period via audio system who're concerning themselves. Chapters 4-9 speak about actual examples of this idiom within the educating of Jesus, with Aramaic reconstructions of every announcing. All yet this type of sayings is located in Mark or 'Q'. there's then a whole dialogue of secondary sayings within the Synoptic Gospels. the 1st ones depending on Daniel 7.13 belong to the earliest Gospel, which additionally includes the result of translating real sayings of Jesus from Aramaic into Greek. there's a dialogue of the transition method among real Aramaic sayings of Jesus and Greek 'son of guy' sayings within the synoptic Gospels. This argument builds on paintings within the box of translation stories, and the paintings of old translators, specifically of the Septuagint. Casey argues that Gospel translators intentionally translated either actually and creatively to provide a brand new Christological name. it truly is this custom that's glaring within the Fourth Gospel: its 'son of guy' sayings healthy completely into Johannine theology. the ultimate bankruptcy attracts jointly a whole technique to this hard challenge.
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Tödt, Menschensohn, p. 164, referring to Jeremias in TWNT V, p. 711 n. 32; Son of Man, p. 177, referring to J. Jeremias, The Servant of God (SBT 20. London: SCM, 1957), p. 102. 84. Tödt, Menschensohn, p. 116; Son of Man, p. 125. 86 Finding that the kingdom of God was indeed a central concept of the teaching of the historical Jesus, and accepting Bultmann’s view that the group of sayings about the coming Son of man were the oldest layer of Son of man sayings, Vielhauer argued that all Son of man sayings originated in the early church.
What is so remarkable is the remoteness of this abstract intellectualizing from the text and thought-world of the Similitudes. Already at 1 En. 1-4, the first appearance of the figure usually described as ‘that son of man’, Manson considers him to be ‘evidently’ symbolic. This is a quite arbitrary interpretation of a vigorously presented individual who is finally identified as Enoch (1 En. 14). Manson tries to 91. T. W. Manson, The Teaching of Jesus (Cambridge: CUP, 1931, 2nd edn, 1935), pp. 211–34, 259–84; ‘The Son of Man in Daniel, Enoch and the Gospels’, BJRL 32 (1949–50), pp.
Wellhausen, Skizzen und Vorarbeiten VI (Berlin: Reimer, 1899), pp. 187–215, ‘Des Menschen Sohn’: Einleitung in die drei ersten Evangelien (Berlin: Reimer, 2nd edn, 1911), pp. 95–8, 123–30. 50. G. Dupont, Le Fils de l’Homme: Essai Historique et Critique (Paris: Fischbacher, 1924). 51. Dupont, Le Fils de l’Homme, pp. 41–60, 159. 52. M. Black, ‘The Son of Man in the Teaching of Jesus’, ExpTim 60 (1948–9), pp. 32–6 (34–5). 22 The Solution to the ‘Son of Man’ Problem We should now be able to see that here the speaker uses a general statement to speak about himself.